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The process can efficiently break down the two main types of post-consumer plastic waste – polyethylene, the component of most single-use plastic bags, and polypropylene, the stuff of hard plastics, ...

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The catalytic process, developed at the University of California, Berkeley, works equally well with the two dominant types of post-consumer plastic waste: polyethylene, the component of most ...